Happy Birthday!

[Guest guest]

Respected

Amma,

I wish you

many more Happy Returns of the Day and greater strength to your elbow in serving

India and mankind!

Amma, you are

a living testimony to the ancient, but living, Saivite culture. You may

remember how after living at the Ananda Ashram for five months in 1988/9 I

wrote that never in my life, as a Tamil and Hindu, had I experienced the

richness of my culture and felt proud of my heritage than during my stay

there..

For what I

experienced then was, not only the deep and subtle Pranayama and unique

Rishiculture Ashtanga Yoga practices from an authority on it, revered Swamiji,

but soul-satisfying religious rituals, inspiring Bharat Natyam and Carnatic

music performances, and a disciplined way of life in a beautiful and peaceful

Ashram set in a rural environment on the shores of the Indian Ocean. It was

heaven on earth.

Since then

you have kept me educated with your excellent monthly Yoga Life, and your

motivational letters and exhortations to delve deeper into life-giving and

soul-redeeming Pranava Aum.

You have

always walked your talk and led us by your example. You have made your own unique

contribution to the science of yoga by authoring " The History of Yoga From

Ancient to Modern Times " ,

to the rank and file by conveying your life and experiences in India with your

book " The Rishi and the Rakshashas " (excerpts of which you have regularly

published in Yoga Life) and soul-inspiring poems, for which you were awarded

the “Excellence in Poetry Peace Prize " by the United Poets Laureate

International of Hercules, California, USA.

Your selfless

and dedicated work in improving the Indian national consciousness by presenting

our scriptures through the medium of Bharat Natyam Dance Drama is an original

contribution par excellence.

You have been

rightly honoured by a series of awards by the Goverment and citizens of

Pondicherry, culminating in the prestigious national “Yoga Mani

Award” by the President of India Shri Zail Singh for your man-making and

Indian-nation building activity.

I consider

myself singularly fortunate to have met a guru of your calibre and associated

closely. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for motivating me in February

1989 and reinforcing it to date, and helping me to discover my potential.

Thanks to you

and as a result of delving deep into Pranava AUM during the last twenty years

it has been divinely revealed to me that:

1. Yoga Therapy is assisting a

student-patient to rise above body and conscious mind, negate ego consciousness

and attune to a higher state of consciousness (and get healed within the

constraints of one’s karma) and

2. Pranava AUM is Yoga Therapy in its

pristine purity!

I salute your

contribution to India and mankind!

God bless

you, Amma!

Love,

Sri Bala,

Yoga Therapist

Founder,

Vibrational Breath therapy

(based on

Rishiculture Ashtanga yoga)

www.vbt.com.au